skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote this for my wife who is learning to play viola (I play violin at a barely endurable amateur level). It was to help her improve her intonation. As you play it draws the notes that you are playing on the musical staff, coloring them black for in tune, red for sharp, blue for flat.
It's one single html/javascript file, no server.

This page works on my Thinkpad/Ubuntu laptop, but won't work on my Android phone, I don't know why. It probably won't work if you try to sing into it rather than play an instrument because the human voice is so complex, in terms of its wave form. I guess. I'm a barely endurable amateur in this domain too. But if you have a musical instrument handy, it might entertain you for a few minutes.
Agree, but substituting multi-account containers with temporary containers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
Lots of ovens and microwaves don't allow you to disable the clock, so the alternative to setting them is to have them run out-of-sync, which is much more irritating than having to set them.
Oy. Another company wanting a piece of the 'newsletter' pie, and access to your mailing list.
How do you differentiate from Meltano?
Relatedly I often think about the Lead–Crime Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

While tough to ever formally prove, the hypothesis posits that the major problems in the 70s/80s with urban crime that trailed off quickly in 90s was as much caused/worsened by leftover lead in urban environments from the mistakes of leaded gasoline as any other factor.

Pollution has been a great "unseen" evil in a lot of the 19th and 20th Centuries, and its amazing given how many secondary effects we can point to that there's any debate at all remaining on efforts to fix pollution issues.
Honestly I never found the case when this happens, data always falls into 1 shard according to the key.
Then comes the concept of shard replica where the shard can live in several nodes and form a redundancy.

However I'm noy sure how usually it's being setup on Postgres
The sad reality is that many of these actual applications load faster than pages that could really just be pages but still load vast amounts of JS...
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Some pages don't let you "Reject All" cookies, you have to uncheck them one by one, and there's literally hundreds of ad networks listed.

It's spooky, I tell ya!
Even with bloat you can trim 2-3 seconds off load times by removing trackers. Trackers that do dynamic swaps like CallRail along with LiveChat are the worst offenders.
I haven't used the new Edge, but simply inverting the colors is going to give you a bad time, all your photos will look rather strange. Realistically, it would want to do something quite a bit more complicated than that. On simple websites, this sort of thing works well, but on compicated websites, it's a nightmare.
Pittsburgh area has spotty FiOS internet service also.
With this logic, there's essentially no regulatory way out of local minima, lemon markets and such. And, the freemium for personal data mining model is very much such a situation.

And I don't think it's a fair statement that any large percentage of _people_ oppose this particular law; in my experience, most people don't seem to have a strong opinion about it, and those that do have a strong negative opinion very often don't really understand it (and are mostly reacting to the irritation that the various stakeholders are deliberately putting them through). Sampling the opinion of companies that live off ads is a bit like asking printer companies how they feel about toner prices.
Chrome is losing market share since October? What changed?
Fail safety doesn’t mean anything, if the decisions it makes is bad, like thinking a plastic bag is a solid object on the road, or simply forgetting where the lane is over a distance and swerving into oncoming traffic..
Try to find a primary source citation for that claim and you’ll learn both why the situations aren’t comparable and the people who told you they were are hoping you don’t check sources.

She’s talked about real things - voter suppression, propaganda campaigns, some funded by foreign governments – but she’s never made the kind of lies we saw about fake votes or said that millions of legitimate votes should be thrown out because she didn’t like the results.

Now, you are trying to conflate talk of voter suppression with fraud but that’s not correct for two reasons: the first is simply that widespread fraud is imaginary in the modern era, but the second is the difference between following a legal process and subverting it. Trying to conflate the two so it’s easier to pretend your party didn’t do something unusual is just dishonest.
In this case they have actually a pretty interesting goal and motivation. They chose GME because it had a short ratio of 138%. Basically, big hedge funds were betting on the downfall and demise of this stock excessively.

What WSB daytraders are trying to do is to bleed out these hedge funds by buying in and holding. The stock doesn't even have to increase and the damage to the big hedge funds is already happening, see the situation that Melvin Capital is in. To those who participate it is a david vs. goliath situation.

The thing is, what they are trying to do is not that dumb and actually quite interesting, but they won't get anywhere by remaining "civil". They need this to spread and be on the frontpage of Reddit constantly. Negative or positive press helps, because more regular people want to participate if they hear about it.

I think that this will go down in history. Constant timeouts, organised selling at certain intervals, unnatural spikes, we've yet to hear about the shady stuff that keeps this stock from surging even faster considering the current "virality".
Yeah, Fivetran seems often to have issues that come down to "we had a discussion with data source/sink provider and found they had a bug in their latest release." Even if an open source contributor gets to that point they won't have the strong arm ability to force the provider to fix the bug ASAP.
Signups can't really be a Show HN (Show HN is for something else, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html), not-signups even less so. You can probably still edit the title.
In Turkey, we eat grape leaves as well. Do they fall into same category?

Edit: The article seems to refer that grape leaves are edible but it also says that grape leaves were not included in this article on purpose.
The claim logically holds together. There is even evidence on its side.

But one reason for the downvotes may be that it might be too narrow-minded. For one thing, it completely neglects to consider the relative difficulty of treating symptoms versus being fully curative. Secondly, it half undermines itself by lumping vaccines into the same bucket as symptomatic treatment. Clearly the economic incentives for vaccine, versus symptom management, versus cure depends on the disease being treated.

Finally, while it carefully uses the word "incentive" instead of talking in black and whites, it doesn't explain why "big pharma" makes cures at all. A lot of the the supporting material for "pharma makes more money on symptom treatment" references Gilead's experience with Hep C. But the economics of how that drug would have worked was clear as day before Gilead spent resources of it. So why would Gilead have gone to market with a cure at all?
Why would a site that hopes you'll send them money in exchange for product, refuse your traffic if you have an ad blocker enabled? That just costs them money. Same for government forms, why would they refuse your traffic if you're blocking ads?
> If you go to the front page of youtube right now, it's filled with vlog style, 10-minute-padded, clickbait junk.

This... Doesn't make any sense. The Frontpage looks like that because it's what the average viewer wants to watch (many of which are kids). If you use YouTube with any regularity, your homepage recommendations shouldn't be coming anywhere close to that.
> Every single one doesn't require a server... Netfliy is probably the most simple way get started.

Netlify is... A SERVER (actually many servers).

The only ones that DON'T require a server are distributed. The only ones I'm aware of use IPFS or Hypercore protocols (formerly DAT). Hypercore's probably the easiest as it is built into the Beaker browser and has been around in an easy browser accessible form for a while now, but Brave has just added support for IPFS.

Pipette and Orkl are static blog apps for Hypercore. There are probably others. I don't know the IPFS world well, so I dunno what's there.

Practically speaking though, the limited number of people hosting Hypercore / IPFS nodes means that the content you want is likely not available on the network at the moment _unless_, you guessed it, you put some of it on a server that's always on.
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I've had a similar experience. My only gripe is that the Facebook Container extension / Multi-Account Containers[0] stopped working for some reason, and I haven't been able to get them working again. I love that I was able to sequester all of Google's real estate from all of Amazon from all of my work tabs, and so on.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
JQuery being more prevalent than Google Analytics is a surprise to me.
You don't always need consent. There are 6 legal reasons to collect data. "Public interest" as with tax returns is one.

As another example, the post office is allowed to collect and process your address, since otherwise they could not fulfill their contract to deliver your parcel (contractual obligations).

Similarly, paramedics don't need to worry about asking for consent from a patient that is unconscious: They can look into their medical records based on "vital interests".
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The last few months I've often wondered if the same thing is happening with the M1.
I added this to my /etc/hosts

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

What is the advantage of having DNS on a separate device other than that it provides ad blocking for multiple devices?
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On Fios in Seattle. Seems good here.
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Ability to establish a live packet network.

Yes, it was basically re-inventing IP for no good reason because lack of internet access meant lack of info about what already existed...

When I, a few years later, got an internet connection and started reading the relevant ISPs, it was pretty annoying to see what had already existed.
How would you do that? I guess through webpack?
Presumably if your adverts don't do tracking, they don't need to slow page loads down the way current advertising does either which should be a big plus.

Fundamentally serving an advert should be a light process adding only a tiny amount of overhead to the site.
I've flip-flopped between uBlock and AdGuard for a while now. Generally find AdGuard to be slightly better and has a much nicer UI.

Also has a neat broken site reporting system in it which automatically generates a GitHub issue to fix the filter lists from a simplified form. Automatically prioritises sites via an algorithm, probably their Alexa ranking or something similar.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues

I've found the issues get fixed pretty quickly too.

They've got an iOS app as well which integrates with the Safari content blocking system.
You have adds on your government forms?
First, shut off your computer. Deal with the problem (looking at HN, for example) on another device. From there, boot up your computer in safe mode (depends on your operating system). Get all the files you want to keep on a flash drive, and reset your device. That's the most secure way to do it, as it wipes all the files from your computer and deletes anything the hackers could be using to control your computer remotely. Change your passwords and be careful what you download.
We should have had some research before trying this enormously costly experiment.

Considering the massive costs and suffering caused by lockdowns, it should be expected that we see some obvious benefit, not just cries of "it would have been so much worse if we didn't".

I have watched in winter as governments react to coronations case rise by tightening measures, yet the case numbers go up and down independently of these measures.
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It depends on how many privacy lists you have added, probably.

Normal display ads all being blocked is generally fine 99% of the time, but if you care about not being permanently tracked across the internet then there are a couple more domains you have to add - except some sites make it mandatory that those invasive fingerprinting scripts and port scanners run and report back a session, otherwise you're refused login or banned.
I fully agree.

I think turning `privacy.partition.network_state` off in about:config should do allow reverting the change at least.
If you are in the "I wish Safari blocked ads" boat but don't know where to go, let me recommend an out…

There are a lot of reasonable choices, I've been using Wipr for years. It does a good job of blocking ads and costs about $2. There are macOS and iOS versions, they update their lists, and because of the architecture have no access to your browsing so can never be tempted to start farming you.

(No affiliation, I haven't done an extensive comparison, but this one works and isn't expensive and you can stop worrying about what to do if you do this now.)
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Also the accursed videos every site wants to cram down your throat.

No no no.

Mostly text, MAYBE some images.
You could set up a Firefox Account and use Firefox Sync to synchronize your Beta and stable profiles (and then disable Sync or the account, if you like).
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> In 2018, for instance, there were approximately 36,400 newly infected patients living with HIV in the U.S.

It's 2021, why are we only seeing 3 year old HIV infection numbers? How come I can see coronavirus infection numbers updated pretty much hourly but reporting on HIV infection rates in this country is lagging 3 years?
Ask HN: How long did it take you to configure your devbox at your current job?
This often takes much longer than I'd expect. I know there are lots of tools to address this kind of thing but many people have edge cases/excuses that cause them not to use them (well). What is your onboarding process like? And what is your dev environment setup like?
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I completed my PhD in the scope of Semantic Web technologies and I can share the same experience that the semantic web community is extremely closed (coming across as feeling "elite"). Having myself no supervisor from the field, it was still possible to publish my ideas (ISWC, WWW etc), but it was impossible to connect to the people and be taken seriously.

I moved on from that field now, and I don't expect to come in touch with any Semantic Web stuff in a open-world context any time soon.

I couldn't agree more with you that the strong ideology that drives this community is one of the main reason that these technologies are not widely adopted. This, and the failure to convince people outside academia that solving the problems it tries to solve is necessary in the first place.

Good luck with TerminusDB, I think I listened to you at KGC.
Oh, hey Sean! I'd rather talk to you about future of programming than this junk, but OK.

You're right, that's what the courts are saying. I don't think most people are buying that, though. There's too much video evidence and testimony to dismiss every motion. Georgia, for example, is a mess. To say that it's fine is taking the result you want and working backwards. (Again, I'm a Bernie Sanders guy. I don't like either of them! :-)

It's like a clean room. You can't have video of people walking in with their outside clothes, without going through the processes and then say, "You have to prove that it contaminated the room." You don't; it's enough to show the process was tainted. There's enough evidence to show that with the existing video and hundreds of witnesses.

The clip I linked to shows that our electoral systems are a train wreck in many states, especially when compared to other countries. (Go watch it.) Now we're screwed. Tens of millions of Americans feel (pretty validly) cheated out of their vote and it has created a no-win situation.

I hate this topic. What are you working on? Any new insights? :-)
This is a particularly low-tier way to troll on Reddit. It doesn’t seem like the problem is drastic there, or even here on HN. I think the problem does stem from a retweet having a vibe of “I endorse this message.”, regardless of what the retweeter has written in their bio.
I totally read it as ethical lads.
No it isn’t. You are using reductionist logic. Because some corporations will sell out their employees and customers under specific circumstances must mean that all of them are doing it all the time, right?

Robbery and murder have no upsides to a society. Organized labor to create something bigger than a single person can build is foundation of society. You can argue which system of organization is better (government owns and dictates everything like communism, corporations and government own and some specific categories of things and dictate what’s in their purview like capitalism, the royalty and nobility own and dictate everything like monarchy, or no organized labor exists like anarchy). But the reality is that we as a species tend to organize into tribes and work in groups and whether you call those tribes/groups corporations, government work forces, peasantry, guilds is just about what trade offs you want to make.

I will be really impressed if you can show a proof that a corporation is like murder.
I wonder how many people reading this comment are thinking, "what's a fax machine?" :o)

I like the analogy, but I wonder how effective it is on anyone under the age of what, 35?
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- How crazy is it to fork time? 1 CE, Year One of Covid Era anyone?
This is exactly the kind of thing where I’ve grown up enough to know that I love the idea of it, but I should never own it. Glad to see someone else enjoying it so much.
Got it. Thank you again for the feedback.
Off-topic but I'd never heard of CatchJS before. As the founder of TrackJS[1] I can't help but feel they were heavily inspired by our product... almost too inspired considering their logo and marketing copy.

(We've been around since 2014, so we pre-date them by 4 years)

[1] https://trackjs.com
I notice dbt integration on your roadmap. As a current Stitch and dbt Cloud customer, can you give some insight into what you're considering there?
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OK, but...

I see three options. 1) Use the non-zero-cost abstraction to do X safely. 2) Write the equivalent abstraction to do X safely, which will cost you the time to write and will probably be buggier than C++'s version. 3) Don't do X.

The fourth option - do X but in an unsafe way - should not be on the table for a professional developer.

Now, C++'s philosophy is that you can't write your own thing to do X more efficiently than C++'s builtin version. They may not perfectly achieve that in all cases, but they come fairly close. That plus bugs means that I won't reach for option 2 unless I have really good reason to think I can do better.

That leaves using the builtins to do X safely, or not doing X. At least that's how it looks to me...
Why is it spreading? Because ACCESS TO CARE is extremely unevenly distributed. It can be extremely difficult for people with limited resources to get proper care.
Connecting to a full-tunnel VPN seems to fix this for me. (FiOS in Brooklyn).
CU had nothing to do with donations to members of Congress or to candidates for Congress.

The issue in CU was whether or not corporations and unions could pay for ads about candidates within 60 days of an election of 30 days of a primary. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 prohibited such things.

The Wikipedia article covers this adequately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
I use AdGuard, a content blocker that supports the major ABP lists like EasyList, Fanboy’s, etc. I wish there was a content blocker that support automatic translation of ABP lists into content blocker rules—I’ve been working on one but haven’t found the time to finish it.
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You can look into the Gatsby and Next JS frameworks for this, among others
I'm pretty sure my cat allergies were giving me 3-day headaches when one of our cats that I'm most allergic to would sleep in our bed and then I'd end up with the same pillow she slept on. I kept the cat out of the bedroom and no more asthma or headaches for 3-4 months now. So perhaps allergies?
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. While the Covid deaths have been incredibly tragic, the 330 of 333 million Americans that survive, and that's assuming the virus and it's variants take 2.5 million more lives before its done with us, will be eager for a return to normalcy, if not outright partying like it's 1999. The play I tried to make last night and wasn't able to get filled today, Bloomin Brands, owner of Outback Steakhouse and other mainstream restaurants that can survive this down turn no matter how long it lasts, is up 1400% since I under bid on that strike and expiry date at 2am this morning. I'm not saying your prediction is guaranteed wrong, but I'm willing to bet against it, and 86% of my call picks are green at the moment, whatever the probability of that might be. The only one that isn't, China Unicom (CHU), essentially got delisted by executive order because the last administration didn't want Americans being able to invest in firms with ties to China's military, such as the largest provider of cell phone service for 1.4 billion people. The pandemic has been an incredible tragedy for so many human beings. I'm trying to position myself to be able to do something about it when the next one comes, which it inevitably will, as the universe trends towards entropy. But I won't be able to do it without capital, so it's worth the risk. Worst case scenario, I'm still a one man consulting shop serving the firms that keep the water running. Barring that, I guess we're hunting and gathering again, and I'm pretty good with a bow. Hopefully it doesn't come to that, and we can all look back at these present days like one of many possible filters we managed to survive on our way to colonizing the stars. That's the future I'd rather plan for, anyway. Albeit while hedging my bets.
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> - impossible to put an image into a clipboard (so that user can e.g. paste it outside a browser)

Isn't it possible with the convenient "Capture screeenshot" feature in Firefox (the 3 dots next to the address bar)?
Thanks for the tip; connecting to a full-tunnel VPN seems to fix this for me. (FiOS in Brooklyn).